Metal+® one
High-throughput metal material 3D printing equipment

Equipment features

• The configured multi-channel powder feeder can achieve real-time mixing of multiple powders, and the mixing ratio is precisely controllable;
• Develop a dedicated high-throughput test software system and interface to print material samples with different composition ratios in one batch;
• It can provide customers with a high-throughput or gradient functional material test and research equipment with high efficiency, high powder utilization, flexible composition ratio, and a wide range of material selection, which is suitable for the composition screening, performance research and gradient material research of steel materials, aluminum alloys, titanium alloys, nickel-based high-temperature alloys, high-entropy alloys, and ceramic powder materials.

Working principle

The equipment uses dedicated control software to generate printing trajectories and powder feeding rates of each powder barrel of different samples according to the different multi-component powder ratios and print quantities preset in the experiment. Printing begins after the water and oxygen index in the environmental chamber drops below 10ppm. After the powders with different powder feeding rates enter the powder mixer for real-time and full mixing, they enter the coaxial nozzle and are ejected under the conveyance of inert protective gas. The high-power laser melts the powder and moves along the preset trajectory driven by the three-axis mechanism to print test samples with different composition ratios.